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The Summons
Peter Lovesey
Works of: Fiction
The third novel in the Peter Diamond series finds Diamond and his wife Steph living in West London where he works in a supermarket collecting trolleys. He believes his days as a policeman are long gone. Unknown to him, a murderer he once arrested escapes from Albany Prison and kidnaps the daughter of the Assistant Chief Constable of Bath. No one except Diamond is capable of handling the emergency so he gets the summons to return to his old job. The Summons won the CWA Silver Dagger and was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for best novel.
CWA Awards
- CWA Silver Dagger – Winner
Sub-genres
Other books by Peter Lovesey
Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories
Diamond and the Eye
The Finisher
Killing with Confetti
Beau Death
Another One Goes Tonight
Down Among the Dead Men
The Stone Wife
The Tooth Tattoo
Cop to Corpse
Stagestruck
Skeleton Hill
Murder on the Short List
The Headhunters
The Secret Hangman
The Circle
The House Sitter
Diamond Dust
Dead Gorgeous
In Suspense
The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime
The Secret of Spandau
The Reaper
The Vault
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
Upon a Dark Night
Bloodhounds
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
Diamond Solitaire
The Last Detective
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Bertie and the Tinman
Rough Cider
Butchers & Other Stories of Crime
Keystone
The False Inspector Dew
Waxwork
Swing, Swing Together
A Case of Spirits
Invitation to a Dynamite Party
Mad Hatter’s Holiday
Abracadaver
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Wobble to Death
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